There’s a well-known saying among lawyers that when the facts are against you, argue the law; when the law is against you, argue the facts; and when the facts and the law are both against you, pound on the table and yell like heck. The behavior of Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo is just the latest illustration of this axoim among the critics of Halbig v | Read More »

Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo knows almost nothing about the law, as any lawyer who has read his material over the years can attest. He’s not an attorney, has never been one, doesn’t have a law degree, and so far as I know has never even taken a law class. Nor is he an expert or seasoned SCOTUS-watcher of any sort. He has literally no basis | Read More »

The fog of war still obscures many of the events surrounding MH17 and it’s still too early to draw any hard conclusions about what occurred, but in the age of instant information, everyone is dissecting the smallest bit of information, however well or poorly verified it might be. Today the lazy and not-very-bright Josh Marshall waded into these waters, with predictable results: Following up on | Read More »

This one just makes me laugh.Josh Marshall, Editor of the left-wing “Talking Points Memo,” writes, “A year ago, no one took seriously the idea that a federal health care mandate was unconstitutional.”Maybe on the left, but on the right it was a fundamental argument. In fact, just before Christmas one year ago, the Senate Republicans voted unanimously that the individual mandate was, in fact, unconstitutional.Getting | Read More »

This one just makes me laugh.Josh Marshall, Editor of the left-wing “Talking Points Memo,” writes, “A year ago, no one took seriously the idea that a federal health care mandate was unconstitutional.”Maybe on the left, but on the right it was a fundamental argument. In fact, just before Christmas one year ago, the Senate Republicans voted unanimously that the individual mandate was, in fact, unconstitutional.Getting | Read More »

The left-wing advocacy class who hide behind press credentials have for the past year tried to make the tea party and Republicans agents of domestic terrorism.It was Barack Obama’s own Organizing For America that labeled them “right-wing domestic terrorists.”Well, the RGA puts up an advertisement called “Remember November”. These “journalists” get together on their Journolist — an email list where they conspire together to develop | Read More »

Josh Marshall leveled a ridiculous attack on Eric Cantor the other day saying that, “Cantor’s behavior is shameful beyond imagining” in trying to say the violence and threats of violence against Congressmen is bipartisan.Numerous others on the left took up Josh Marshall’s attacks on Cantor urging Cantor be condemned. Some members of the House, including Alan Grayson, urged Eric Cantor to resign for his press | Read More »

Well now, only a few days ago Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was crying in his beer about all the violence and threats of violence. He said, “No one who is even remotely honest can pretend that anything about this is bipartisan in character. The Right and yes the national Republican party has been stirring this pot for months.”From Josh Marshall’s own website this | Read More »

“As incitement goes, I find “they want you to die” just a teensy bit more blood-thirsty than “read the bill,” but maybe that’s just me. I don’t do “dog whistles” and code words.” If the left burns down their own straw men, can we have them arrested for arson? That seems to be where we are headed.Josh Marshall and the Democrats have descended into rubber | Read More »

This post by Josh Marshall on the Jindal/Lee story is really hilarious. Marshall smugly insists that Erick’s original post has no facts in it, but he stubbornly refuses to quote his citations to primary sources and video. We laid out the case here further as to why those facts, now supplemented by video of Sheriff Lee himself confirming that Jindal was in his office the | Read More »

We stand today deep into the silly season of the 2008 presidential election; most of us have our dander up, and naturally some Obama partisans like Josh Marshall and Joe Klein have floated off on clouds of rhetorical overkill in an effort to push the idea that their opponent is somehow running an unusually dishonest campaign. Even aside from the partisanship, you have to be | Read More »

You quoted the AP as saying: “Even in a political culture accustomed to truth-stretching, McCain’s skirting of facts has stood out this week.” Then you proceed to spew the following: “The controversies have surrounded McCain television commercials and stump speeches asserting that Barack Obama “supports” comprehensive sex education in kindergarten, that Obama called Sarah Palin a “pig in lipstick,” and that Palin stood firmly against | Read More »